Simple python app to track US Disclosurs forms, where members of congress post their investments. Script checks if there are any new disclosures for specified members and if there are, those disclosures will be sent as a telegram message. Data is from https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/FinancialDisclosure

How to run

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/olinpin/us-disclosures

Change directory into the repo

cd us-disclosures

Copy .env file

cp .env.example .env

Fill .env file with using your favorite editor:

vim .env

Create virtual environment and activate it

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit the seed.sql file with names you'd like to track (as seen in the example in the file)
Run the script

python disclosures/financial_disclosure.py

Receive telegram messages with disclosures (for best results I recommend running this every 30 minutes with crontab)

.env variables

TELEGRAM_API_KEY - can be obtained through the official telegram docs
TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_ID - that's the channel ID of your telegram bot that you created according to docs above
DB_PATH - can stay the same
SCHEMA_PATH - can stay the same
SEED_PATH - can stay the same